#video | What will happen to the planet after a nuclear war?
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Universal nuclear disarmament — the only way to avoid disaster.
No matter How peaceful seemed the sky overhead, the situation on the planet is extremely tense. As of 2017 there are about four dozen armed conflicts and wars and 2020, the year began with the escalation of the conflict in the middle East. The arrow is metaphorical doomsday clock — which means the beginning of a nuclear war — stopped at around 23:58. This means that the threat of nuclear war, which, it seemed, were in the distant past, will not go away. Moreover, in recent decades the nuclear potential of the world powers has increased significantly. But what happens to the planet if midnight did come?
Doomsday Clock — it is a project of the University of Chicago — a magazine called the Bulletin of the atomic scientists (). The journal is published since 1945, however, the watch itself was first mentioned in the publication in 1947. The journal was founded by members of the Manhattan project — is the code name for the secret US program to develop nuclear weapons. The last time the clock hands were at around 23:58 in 1953, when US and USSR first tested a hydrogen bomb.
what will a limited nuclear conflict?
Almost everyone has seen it looks like a nuclear winter. At least as it is presented filmmakers and writers. Now it's time to get acquainted with nuclear winter scientists see. According to the results of a study published in 2014 in the journal, scientists have modeled the events that will happen after "limited, regional nuclear war." In their paper, the researchers presented the development of a nuclear conflict between India and Pakistan. The choice of these countries is probably due to a small nuclear capability of the two powers, in comparison with the US, Russia and China.
After an exchange of 100 nuclear , each about the size of a bomb dropped by the U.S. on Hiroshima, five megatons of black carbon (black carbon) will immediately escape into the atmosphere. Black carbon or soot will prevent the penetration of sunlight and destroy the ozone layer. A certain amount of black carbon, eventually reaches the surface with the rain.
Nuclear winter in the representation of the artist
A year Later, the average surface temperature of the planet will drop by about two degrees Fahrenheit, and in five years will be three degrees colder. However, the temperature drop will occur unevenly, and the amount of precipitation is significantly reduced. European winters are snowy and cold, and other regions subjected to drought. The destruction of the ozone layer can lead to more sunburns and skin cancer, as well as reduced plant growth and destabilization of the DNA of such crops like corn. In General, the consequences of a limited nuclear conflict will be cold, crop failures and famine, and the number will be at least 2 billion people.
What are the implications of large-scale nuclear war?
In the Fall of 2019, scientists from Princeton University published a video that draws a terrible picture of the consequences between Russia and the United States. Because of a hypothetical large-scale conflict is completely immersed in darkness, gasping from the nuclear ashes. Victims of war, according to estimates, could grow to more than 91 million people. And this is only the beginning of hostilities. In published on the website of the journal Science & Global Security, said that scientists have developed a simulation to highlight the potentially catastrophic consequences of a nuclear war between Russia and the United States. Recall that the risk of nuclear war has increased dramatically over the past few years, as the United States and Russia abandoned long standing treaties on nuclear arms control.
looks like a simulation of nuclear war between the USA and Russia
Four-minute video uploaded by Alex Glaser, co-editor of the journal Science & Global Security, illustrates the horrific chaos that could result from nuclear war. The simulation starts from the target attack Russia in the border area of Germany and Poland. Within a few hours of US entering the conflict and relieve the territory of the Kaliningrad region . By calculations of experts, already by this moment will die, not less than 2.6 million people. In total, as a result of military action during the first 45 minutes will destroy more than 3.4 million people.
Note that in the simulation used extensive data sets of real States of the world, stockpiles of weapons and potential targets for its application. What do you think, how likely is such a development? Share your opinion in the comments and participants .
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